Lafayette Book Store

Welcome to the Lafayette Book Store Online

If you arrived here looking for Bonanza Street Books, they unfortunately have closed their doors. As they were friends of ours and we're the nearest independent bookstore, they have referred their website to us. Come by the store in Lafayette or call us at 925-284-1233 and let us know how we can be of service.

For the rest of you, whether you come to us from our brick-and-mortar bookstore in Lafayette, California, or from one of our many special event bookstores out in the world, we're glad you're here!

Shopping the Lafayette Book Store has never been easier. Buy your books online now and have your purchase shipped directly to your home or office, or if you prefer you can arrange for store pickup.

As always, we're real people behind the books so give us a call or an email if you have any questions or concerns.

Our Weekend Parking Lot Sale Begins

We've been saving up overstocked used books and will be putting them out during our annual Weekend Parking Lot sale. Running both Saturdays and Sundays through the summer, you will find a wide selection of fiction, nonfiction, cookbooks, kids books, and esoterica, all priced under $2. Come by and check it out, 11am-4pm.

Our Community Partner Bookstores

We're proud of our many community partnerships with non-profit groups, authors, and publishers. Part of our commitment is to provide them with a custom, online bookstore featuring a hand-picked selection of titles. Some of these bookstores are environmental, some educational, some just for fun. Click here to browse around

Join Book Culture, Save Money, Create Community

We're proud to offer our customers a unique opportunity to save 40% on all their book purchases, plus to participate more meaningfully in their local bookstore community.

It's called BOOK CULTURE, and this is the place to get BOOK CULTURE news and to get information about the program and how to sign up. Click here to find out more

Store Events

Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America.

The Age of Shiva
by Suri, Manil
Meera is a modern woman who is determined to take her life into her own hands, even if it means mean making one mistake after another. Manil Suri's places the young woman's life against the background of modern India -- with its combustible mixture of religion and politics. With this second novel, he displays an enormous versatility in style as well as subject.--Carla Cohen, Politics &Prose Books &Coffee (Washington, DC)

Quote of the Day

"When you re-read a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."

- Clifton Fadiman
Any Number Can Play
From The Quotable Book Lover (Lyons Press)

Author Birthday

Born on this date in 1889: Jean Cocteau.

Celebrate National Poetry Month

Created by the American Academy of Poets, National Poetry Month is a perfect time to reflect on the important place of poetry in literature, and renew your appreciation of a good poem!

A Yes-Or-No Answer: Poems
by Shore, Jane
In her acclaimed collections Happy Family and Music Minus One, Jane Shore traced her life from childhood to coming of age to parenthood. Now, in A Yes-or-No Answer, Shore etches the persistence of the past in a life that has moved into a mature new phase as a member of the baby boom generation. Recalling her Jewish childhood in New Jersey, living in the apartment above the family's clothing store, Shore lovingly imagines her parents, now gone, reunited with relatives over a Scrabble board in the afterlife. The poet's teenage daughter sorts through the "vintage" clothes of her mother's own hippie days. Cherished items left behind -- an address book, a piano, an easy chair, a favorite doll -- continue to haunt the living. The poems in A Yes-or-No Answer dignify memory through precise detail, with a voice that will resonate for a generation at a crossroads.